"graveyard watch" meaning in English

See graveyard watch in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: graveyard watches [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} graveyard watch (plural graveyard watches)
  1. (nautical) The middle watch on a ship, from midnight to 4 am. Related terms: graveyard shift Coordinate_terms: first watch, night watch
    Sense id: en-graveyard_watch-en-noun-zCtD8VCI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Nautical Topics: nautical, transport

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "graveyard watches",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "graveyard watch (plural graveyard watches)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Nautical",
          "orig": "en:Nautical",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "first watch"
        },
        {
          "word": "night watch"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The middle watch on a ship, from midnight to 4 am."
      ],
      "id": "en-graveyard_watch-en-noun-zCtD8VCI",
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "middle watch",
          "middle watch"
        ],
        [
          "ship",
          "ship"
        ],
        [
          "midnight",
          "midnight"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) The middle watch on a ship, from midnight to 4 am."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "graveyard shift"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "graveyard watch"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "graveyard watches",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "graveyard watch (plural graveyard watches)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "graveyard shift"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "first watch"
        },
        {
          "word": "night watch"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The middle watch on a ship, from midnight to 4 am."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "middle watch",
          "middle watch"
        ],
        [
          "ship",
          "ship"
        ],
        [
          "midnight",
          "midnight"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) The middle watch on a ship, from midnight to 4 am."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "graveyard watch"
}

Download raw JSONL data for graveyard watch meaning in English (0.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-08-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-08-05 using wiktextract (872fc7b and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.